Cruel Persuasions

Bondage/fetish porn remains a small niche phenomenon, but with obviously committed fans. This unspectacular specimen boasts an all-big-busts cast as a draw, along with full nudity and softcore content nearing hardcore.

Its nominal story is not scintillating: the late Lisa Comshaw cast as an undercover cop at Carson Industries investigating the kidnapping of Janet (mainstream porn star Shay Sights), daughter of the company's owner. Both Janet and the cop are tortured by evil Georgina (Olivia Outre, a curly-haired blonde meanie) and her minion Abby (big-bust blonde Stacy Burke, until late in the show Georgina turns on her and vividly tortures Abby too.

Staring at these nude damsels in distress is certainly arousing, and the other element that eventually takes precedence is seeing them abused in increasingly outre fashion by Ms. Outre. Plenty of realistic whipping and tight closeups of a pinwheel moved back and forth along private parts, perilously coming close to injuring exposed labia. Movie climaxes with a contraption with many clothespins forcing Abby's vagina open, not hardcore porn but definitely graphic and excessive.

I have trouble with the sadistic nature of this sort of content, clearly bringing up the familiar question of whether this is an outlet for viewers' antagonism toward women, or whether it stimulates and reinforces such attitudes. I watched it to see Sights in action, as she's a favorite MILF of mine two decades after this was made, and clearly this is evidence of her having paid her dues in porn as an ingenue.